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5.0 classic
Anathema Judgement
Another Perfect Day Four Songs For The Left Behind
Estatic Fear A Sombre Dance
Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast
Tigran Hamasyan Luys i Luso

4.5 superb
Agalloch The Mantle
Aherusia As I Cross The Seas of My Soul
This is an excellent album. Sounds a bit like viking metal at times but keeps things interesting through out and can be considered as a more accessible version of Rotting Christ.
Alcest Shelter
Amorphis The Karelian Isthmus
Anathema Alternative 4
Antimatter Black Market Enlightenment
Ayreon The Human Equation
Cathis Ord The Far Shore
Cathis Ord Demo
Cradle of Filth Existence Is Futile
It's like COF decided to tighten up all the loose screws.
Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast - Re-Mistressed
Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast
Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy
Devin Townsend Project Addicted
Dread Sovereign All Hell's Martyrs
This is epic doom metal at its finest. This is worthy of Album of the year.
Empyrium The Turn of the Tides
Estatic Fear Somnium Obmutum
Fantastic Negrito Deluxe EP
Godthrymm Reflections
Gojira The Way of All Flesh
Gojira Les Enfants Sauvages
Gojira The Flesh Alive
Haggard And Thou Shalt Trust the Seer
Höstblod Mörkrets intåg
Iced Earth Horror Show
Iced Earth Alive in Athens
In Vain (NO) Aenigma
Iron Maiden Brave New World
Junius Reports From The Threshold of Death
Khemmis Hunted
Kishi Bashi Omoiyari
After repeated listens, I have to bump this up to 4.5.
Mar De Grises Streams Inwards
maudlin of the Well Bath
maudlin of the Well Part the Second
Mourning Beloveth A Disease for the Ages
Mourning Beloveth The Sullen Sulcus
Mourning Beloveth A Murderous Circus
Mouth Of The Architect Quietly
Ne Obliviscaris Urn
Ne Obliviscaris Exul
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...)
Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth
Rotting Christ Theogonia
Saturnus Saturn in Ascension
Saturnus Martyre
Saturnus Paradise Belongs to You
Septicflesh The Great Mass
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell
Takatak Acrophase
Coming from Pakistan, this band and album are a feat! This is on par, in fact better than most progressive/djent bands. Phantom is simply outstanding and one of the best things I have heard this year.
Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld Still Smiling
The Prophecy Salvation
Toby Driver Live at Roulette, March 2017
Tool Lateralus
Tool Ænima
Universe 217 Ease

4.0 excellent
A Whisper in the Noise To Forget
Afreet Until the End of Time
Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere
Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit
Agnes Obel Aventine
Ahab The Boats of the Glen Carrig
Alcest Kodama
Ambassador Care Vale
Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes
An Abstract Illusion Atonement Is Nigh
Excellent progressive death metal in the vein of Ne Obliviscaris, Insomnium and a few others. The first track, albeit 16+ minutes long, doesn't get boring at any point. I sense a lot of potential in their forthcoming album.

https://anabstractillusion.bandcamp.com/
Anathema Eternity
Anathema The Silent Enigma
Andrew Judah Impossible Staircase
Another Perfect Day The Gothenburg Post Scriptum
Antimatter Welcome to the Machine / Too Late
Arche Transitions
Archspire Bleed the Future
Aspherium The Fall of Therenia
Ataraxis Black Veil
Axxis Kingdom Of The Night II
Aztln MEXICO INMORTAL
Aztln Legión mexica
Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone
Be'lakor Stone's Reach
Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were
Benjamin Clementine And I Have Been
Bewitcher Cursed Be Thy Kingdom
Blue October Home
Bosco Sacro Gem
Brigid Mae Power The Two Worlds
Byzantine Byzantine
Byzantine To Release Is to Resolve
Groovy enough to repeat the album. However, apart from a song or two, not all are memorable.
Cattle Decapitation Terrasite
Chaos Theatre Symphony of the Stars, Ch. 1: Unholy Dream
Chevelle NIRATIAS
Clouds (INT) Dor
Clouds (INT) Doliu
Clouds (INT) Despărțire
Countless Skies Glow
Clean vocals are Devin-isque and that's a good thing.
Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches
Cradle of Filth Midian
Crippled Black Phoenix Ellengaest
Cult of Luna The Long Road North
Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner
Daft Punk Random Access Memories
Darkher Realms
Dave Gahan and the Soulsavers Imposter
Devin Townsend Project Transcendence
Devin Townsend Project Ghost
Dissolving of Prodigy Lamentations of Innocents
Dog Fashion Disco Sweet Nothings
Doom VS Earthless
Dreadnought Bridging Realms
An excellent album, channeling various heavy and other fantastic moments of avant-garde. The songs are long but not a single boring moment on them.
Dynfari The Four Doors of the Mind
Рожь Всё
Ellende Ellenbogengesellschaft
Ember Sun On Earth and Heaven
Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death
Empyrium Über den Sternen
Epistulum From the Dead Masses
Everlasting Mortality The Restless Waves
Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors
Fall to November Sky... A Little Sounds for an Empty World
Fallujah The Flesh Prevails
Famyne Famyne
Fantastic Negrito The Last Days Of Oakland
Gazpacho Demon
Gazpacho Fireworker
Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam
Ghost Brigade IV - One with the Storm
Glasgow Coma Scale Enter Oblivion
Glen Hansard This Wild Willing
Gojira From Mars to Sirius
Greg Puciato Fuck Content
Greg Puciato Mirrorcell
Grimirg MMXV - I
Groza The Redemptive End
Haggard Awaking the Centuries
Haggard Eppur si muove
Hail Spirit Noir Pneuma
Hanging Garden I Am Become
Höstblod Dikter om döden
Hippotraktor Meridian
This could easily have been titled From Mars to Meridian.
Iced Earth Dystopia
Iced Earth Plagues of Babylon
In Vain (NO) The Latter Rain
Invent Animate Heavener
Iress Flaw
Iron Maiden Dance of Death
ISON Inner - Space
Judas Priest Firepower
Kardashev The Almanac
Katatonia City Burials
Kayo Dot Coffins on Io
Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky
With this album, Toby appears to be in cohort with trans-dimensional beings from a place where the synth fused past is still alive or perhaps transcending in a strange amalgamation with the future.
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard L. W.
Kreator Hordes of Chaos
Kreator Gods of Violence
LLNN Unmaker
Lustre (SWE) Blossom
Manes Slow Motion Death Sequence
Mar De Grises Draining The Waterheart
Martin Grech March of the Lonely
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map
Mechina Empyrean
Miserere Luminis Ordalie
Moanaa Torches
Mol Diorama
Mourning Beloveth Dust
Mourning Beloveth Formless
Mourning Beloveth Rust & Bone
Incredible but I wish there were more tracks on this one.
Mouth Of The Architect The Violence Beneath
My death belongs to you The world seems to be fading
My Dying Bride A Map of All Our Failures
My Dying Bride Feel the Misery
A solemn nod to the yester works yet serenading enough to calm new sorrows. Excellent addition to the art that is MDB.
My Dying Bride For Lies I Sire
My Dying Bride A Line of Deathless Kings
My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours
My Dying Bride Evinta
My Dying Bride The Light at the End of the World
My Dying Bride Like Gods of the Sun
My Dying Bride The Angel and the Dark River
Mythological Cold Towers Monvmenta Antiqva
Native Construct Quiet World
Ne Obliviscaris Citadel
Ne Obliviscaris Hiraeth
Nevoa Towards Belief
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away
Nightfall At Night We Prey
Album slays with its razor sharp riffs and killer vocals! Killing Moon, Witches, Giants of Anger, Martyrs of the Cult of the Dead are all bangers
Nord (FRA) The Only Way To Reach The Surface
Novembers Doom To Welcome the Fade
Novembers Doom Amid Its Hallowed Mirth
Novembers Doom The Knowing
Novembers Doom Of Sculptured Ivy And Stone Flowers
Numenorean Adore
Obsidious Iconic
October Tide Rain Without End
Oden Sun Immortal Souls
Excellent doomy groovy album! Some really interesting riffs in here.

https://odensun1.bandcamp.com/album/immortal-souls
Officium Triste Mors Viri
Officium Triste The Death of Gaia
Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day
Pain of Salvation Panther
Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter II
Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
Paradise Lost The Plague Within
Pendulous Mirrored Confessions
Primordial Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Definitely missing some element to make it 'grand' but overall an excellent album.
Pro-Pain Foul Taste of Freedom
Raven ExtermiNation
This album is a lot of fun and it took me back to the 80s!
Rishloo Eidolon
Riverside O2 Panic Room
Riverside Out of Myself
Riverside Second Life Syndrome
Root Kärgeräs - Return from Oblivion
Rotting Christ Lucifer Over Athens
Saattue Jaahyvasti
Saturnus Veronika Decides to Die
Saturnus The Storm Within
Schizoid Lloyd The Last Note In God's Magnum Opus
Sea of Desperation The Shards - Nightingale's Death (Part I)
Sepultura Roots
Serj Tankian Jazz-Iz-Christ
Shape of Despair Monotony Fields
Shearwater Rook
Skyforest Unity
Sleep Token This Place Will Become Your Tomb
Sleestak Aeon
Snowday As We Travel
Soen Lykaia
Soijl Endless Elysian Fields
Sojourner The Shadowed Road
Solautumn Autunnari
Spheron A Clockwork Universe
'Tight' is the right word to describe this band and album! Guitar work is excellent.

http://spheron.bandcamp.com/album/a-clockwork-universe
Spiritual Beggars Earth Blues
Spoon They Want My Soul
Stortregn Impermanence
SubRosa (US) More Constant Than The Gods
Subterranean Masquerade Suspended Animation Dreams
Subterranean Masquerade Mountain Fever
Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light
Tau Cross A Pillar Of Fire
Tau Cross Messengers of Deception
Tenhi Valkama
The track 'Valkama' makes me want to weep and laugh at the same time.
The Antlers Familiars
The Avalanches We Will Always Love You
The Foreshadowing Oionos
The Offering Home
The Slayerking Sanatana Dharma
Thy Catafalque Geometria
Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn
Tigran Hamasyan Shadow Theater
Tigran Hamasyan Mockroot
Toby Driver Madonnawhore
Tool 10,000 Days
Triptykon Melana Chasmata
Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Universe 217 Never
Universe 217 Change
Tanya's voice and the instruments are a perfect marriage in this one. This album has moments that can give you goosebumps!
Urfaust Empty Space Meditation
Violet Cold Anomie
Voyager V
Voyager Ghost Mile
The djent effect is acceptable, vocals are a highlight and the songs are tightly structured.

Favorite track: The Fragile Serene
Witherscape The Inheritance
Witherscape The Northern Sanctuary

3.5 great
A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant
Aetherian Tales of Our Times
Parts of this give a nod to Insomnium or Be'lakor but it also holds off on its own very well. Tales of our times is a great track.
Agathodaimon In Darkness
Amenra Mass VI
Amiensus Ascension
Amiensus Restoration
Amorphis Circle
Amorphis Halo
Anathema A Natural Disaster
Anathema Hindsight
Astrodiver Garage Experience No. 1
Atramentus Stygian
Barren Earth A Complex of Cages
Batushka Litourgiya
Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror
Brymir Voices in the Sky
Burial in the Sky Creatio et Hominus
Candlemass Death Thy Lover
Chaostar The Undivided Light
Coldplay Ghost Stories
Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine
Cult of Luna Vertikal
Cynic Ascension Codes
Dad Thighs The Ghosts That I Fear
Dark Tranquillity Moment
Deafheaven Infinite Granite
Death Angel Humanicide
Deftones Ohms
Devilment Devilment II - The Mephisto Waltzes
Devin Townsend Snuggles
Dreadnought Lifewoven
Dreadnought The Endless
Ellende Triebe
Enslaved In Times
Envy The Fallen Crimson
Eternal Champion Ravening Iron
Exgenesis Aphotic Veil
Fen Dustwalker
Fin'amor Forbidding Mourning
Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage
Gojira Magma
Gojira Fortitude
Hanging Garden At Every Door
Hemina Nebulae
Ikarie Arde
Immortal War Against All
Junius Eternal Rituals For The Accretion of Light
Katatonia The Fall of Hearts
Khemmis Deceiver
Kultika Capricorn Wolves
London Grammar Californian Soil
Lunatic Soul Through Shaded Woods
Machine Head Bloodstone and Diamonds
Metallica Metallica
Mogwai Les Revenants OST
Mork Katedralen
My Dying Bride The Ghost of Orion
Nadine Shah Love Your Dum And Mad
Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
Napalm Death Resentment is Always Seismic...
Ne Obliviscaris Sarabande to Nihil
Negura Bunget Zău
Novembre Ursa
Opium Warlords Taste My Sword of Understanding
Orphaned Land The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR
Orphaned Land All Is One
Paranorm Empyrean
Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt
Pearl Jam Gigaton
Eddie sounds great but most of the songs sound same-y.

Standout tracks: Seven O'Clock, Retrograde
Powerwolf Blessed and Possessed
Primordial Exile Amongst the Ruins
Psilocybe Larvae Where Silence Dwells
Puscifer Money Shot
Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway
Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name
Riverside Memories In My Head
Riverside Wasteland
Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory
Rotting Christ Kata Ton Demona Eaftou
Rotting Christ Aealo
Ruby Haunt Watching the Grass Grow
Sakis Tolis Among the Fires of Hell
Sounds like Rotting Christ, feels like RC but it isn't RC. These tracks could easily have been on any RC album. I thought Sakis would try something new here but this is just playing safe. I am listening to this not as a Sakis album but as a prelude to the next RC album.
Septicflesh Codex Omega
Sepultura Quadra
Sleestak Harbinger
Stormlord Far
Swallow the Sun Moonflowers
Sweven (SWE) The Eternal Resonance
Testament Brotherhood of the Snake
The 69 Eyes Death Of Darkness
The Chapter Angels & Demons
The Felice Brothers From Dreams to Dust
The Foreshadowing Second World
The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
The Sun The Moon The Stars The God
Thy Catafalque Naiv
Toby Driver They Are the Shield
Triptykon Eparistera Daimones
Ulver Flowers of Evil
Voyager Colours in the Sun
There is no stand out on this one unlike the last album that I quite enjoyed.
Wake Devouring Ruin
Wear Your Wounds Rust on the Gates of Heaven
Whirr Sway
WRVTH WRVTH
Yoth Iria As The Flame Withers
Yoth Iria Under His Sway

3.0 good
A Death By The Seaside A Death By The Seaside
Abbath Abbath
Anathema The Optimist
This band broke my heart by becoming so optimistic!
Children of the Sun Roots
Dreadnought A Wake In Sacred Waves
Emptiness Not For Music
Enslaved RIITIIR
Eternal Tears of Sorrow Saivon Lapsi
Fragment Soul Axiom Of Choice
Grimirg Night Be My Grave
Harakiri for the Sky Arson
Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion
Ihsahn Fascination Street Sessions
Kauan Ice Fleet
Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike
Kishi Bashi Emigrant
Kroda Ginnungagap Ginnungagaldr Ginnungakaos
Metallica Load
Metallica Reload
My Dying Bride Macabre Cabaret
Orphaned Land Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs
Power Trip Nightmare Logic
Psychotic Waltz The God-Shaped Void
Puscifer Existential Reckoning
Riverside Anno Domini High Definition
Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Septicflesh Titan
Solution .45 Nightmares In The Waking State Pt. 1
Subterranean Masquerade The Great Bazaar
Sounds like an album by Arjen Lucassen. Paul's voice stands out but the rest doesn't deliver much of an impact.
Sunnata Burning In Heaven, Melting On Earth
The Flight of Sleipnir Eventide
Tomorrow's Rain Hollow
Tori Amos Ocean to Ocean
Unleashed Dawn of the Nine
Zakk Sabbath Vertigo

2.5 average
Abbath Dread Reaver
En Minor When The Cold Truth Has Worn Its Miserable Welcome
In the Woods... Cease the Day
Metallica 72 Seasons
System of a Down Protect The Land/Genocidal Humanoidz
The Ocean Holocene
The Silver (US) Ward of Roses

2.0 poor
Iced Earth The Crucible of Man
Manowar Highlights from the Revenge of Odysseus
Metallica St. Anger
Persona Elusive Reflections
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